narendra jussien

full professor, constraints group

école des mines de nantes - lina

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Trends in Constraint Programming
Frédéric Benhamou, Narendra Jussien and Barry O'Sullivan

The International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP) is the premier annual meeting dedicated to developments in the field of constraint programming. It is concerned with all aspects of computing with constraints, including algorithms, applications, environments, languages, models, and systems. Constraint programming is an ever-evolving field and each year the set of workshops that run alongside the conference represent the ongoing trends of the field. Very interesting insights, concepts and results are presented during these workshops.

The objective of this book is to complement the CP 2006 conference proceedings with a volume that reflects the current trends in the field as reflected by the workshop program, and collects these in a thematic way to provide a broad perspective on what is currently being studied in these areas. The organizers of each workshop have contributed either a single chapter reflecting the broad trends within the topic of their workshop, or a collection of short chapters presenting condensed versions of key contributions accompanied with an editorial comment.

The intended audience of this book comprises researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of constraint programming. Research students should find the book useful as a guide to the topics that are considered to be at the cutting edge of constraint programming research.

Some samples:

the table of contents [pdf, 77ko]
the introduction [pdf, 52ko]
chapter 5: On the First SAT/CP Integration Workshop by Youssef Hamadi and Lucas Bordeaux [pdf, 165ko]
the complete BiBTeX file [bib, 17ko]

This book can be ordered from the publisher ISTE (Hermes/Lavoisier).